On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Clayton
One of the (desktop/home) computers I am supporting is having issues. We decided to back up all the data to an external 750GB USB drive and do a complete OS rebuild (it's running openSUSE 10.1 and it's time to update so something newer anyway)
The USB drive was connected, and recognized fine. The drive was formatted as vfat (FAT32) because it needs to be easily accessed by other OSes.
I have a similar setup. However, I format the drive with reiserfs when I backup Linux. And then I switch back to NTFS when I need to write to it from Windows. I do this because the rule of thumb is not to create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. I never need to access the drive from two OSes at the same time. So this works for me. Also, I use rsync instead of cp or mv. One key advantage is that rsync can pick up where it left off even if the drive gets booted by the hotplugging system, which has happened to me. That is how I got turned onto rsync. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org